Started swimming recently too, aim to do two morning sessions a week before work. First week I was dreadful and was getting passed easily by the old grannies. Roll on a few weeks and I’m much better and can hold my own with the pensioners, though I know I’ll never be good enough to progress out of the slow lane.
But our local pool is now closing for 5 months for a refurb too make it carbon neutral; solar panels, heat pumps, reducing the depth of the deep end & deepening the shallow end to make the water heating more efficient, etc. So that’s the end of that. 🙁